September 28, 1842 • Wednesday

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Eighteenth Meeting¹

of the

Society.

Grove, Sept. 28^th.

Mrs. President not present.² Councillors [Sarah] Cleveland and [Elizabeth Ann] Whitney presided— the following persons were received into the Society— to wit.

Jerusha Dalyrimple	Caroline L. Curtiss
Margaret Dunn	Margaret West
Adaline Dunn	Polly Meecham [Meacham]
Clarissa Herriman	Ann F. Kinsey
Jennette C. Russell	Surviah Taylor
Melvina C. Snow	Maryette Coray
Susan Hervey [Harvey]	Permelia M. Dayton
Sally G. Canfield	Mary Vanansdall [Van Ausdall]
Sarah Mowerry	Anne Vanansdall [Anna Van Ausdall]
Elizabeth Robbins	Maria Harris
Harriet Marsh	Naomi Kellogg
Sally Peacock	Elizabeth Packer
Julia Daniels	Catharine Mikesell
Elizabeth Mount	Hannah Page
Lodema Winnegar [Winegar]	Saria Garner
Susanna Yocom	Catharine E. Crouse
Lucy J. Leonard	Mary Fose

Meeting adjourn’d Sine Die.

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Footnotes

[1]This minute book numbers Relief Society meetings in sequence for each of the three years it covers. For 1842, the minutes have no record for the seventeenth meeting, which would have been held at some point between August 31 and September 28. It is also possible that there was no additional meeting and that the scribe accidentally skipped from sixteen to eighteen in numbering the meetings.
[2]In the entry he made in Joseph Smith’s journal for the day following this meeting, scribe Willard Richards recorded, “This day Sister Emma began to be sick with fever; consequently president Joseph kept in the house and with her all day.” Joseph and Emma were both sick for the next week. (Joseph Smith, Journal, Sept. 29–Oct. 7, 1842, in JSP, J2:159–162.)